Leonard Cohen

Told during his concert at Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem on Friday that it had been a decade since he last performed at the venue, folk singer Eric Andersen replied, “Where have I been?”

It’s a good question not only as it relates to Andersen’s appearances at Godfrey Daniels, but for his career, as well.

As Andersen, 74, showed in a two-hour-and-15-minute set of 18 songs and stories, he’s cut from the same cloth as Bob Dylan (with whom he shared the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene) and Leonard Cohen – sharing elements of both that, at their best, made his show equally delightful.

Yet Andersen’s star never rose to the level of those two, and these years later, his...

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